Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 585 716
Rank change year-on-year -105 +131 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 115 88 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 83 60 52
10th Percentile £57,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £98,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 105,685 44,574 74,714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 89.72% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,853 26,277 45,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -107 104 £72,500 -6.45% 18
UK excluding London -66 60 £72,500 +20.83% 10
London -93 48 £76,250 -4.69% 15
Work from Home -44 42 £70,000 +9.38% 10
East of England -4 25 £72,500 -3.33%
North of England -43 16 £77,500 +29.17% 1
Midlands -36 10 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 10 £70,000 -
North East - 9 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 - 2
North West -11 4 £80,000 +33.33% 1
Yorkshire -45 3 £70,000 +16.67%
South East -22 1 - - 2
South West - 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £58,565 - 2

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 September 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (48.70%) AWS
3 34 (29.57%) Software Engineering
4 33 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (27.83%) AI
6 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
6 31 (26.96%) RESTful
7 25 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 23 (20.00%) Validation
9 22 (19.13%) Azure
10 20 (17.39%) API Design
10 20 (17.39%) Event-Driven
11 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (15.65%) FastAPI
12 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (14.78%) Agile
13 17 (14.78%) Continuous Delivery
13 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (14.78%) Docker
13 17 (14.78%) Swagger
14 16 (13.91%) Generative AI
14 16 (13.91%) Kubernetes
14 16 (13.91%) Observability
15 15 (13.04%) JavaScript
16 14 (12.17%) Linux
16 14 (12.17%) Mentoring
16 14 (12.17%) MongoDB
16 14 (12.17%) SQL
17 13 (11.30%) Kafka
17 13 (11.30%) RabbitMQ

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.61%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 56 (48.70%) AWS
2 22 (19.13%) Azure
3 12 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (10.43%) Serverless
4 10 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (5.22%) SaaS
6 5 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.35%) GitHub
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.87%) Dagster
9 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.70%) Broadband
1 10 (8.70%) MQTT
2 3 (2.61%) 4G
2 3 (2.61%) 5G
2 3 (2.61%) DNS
2 3 (2.61%) HTTP
2 3 (2.61%) SSH
2 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.17%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.09%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.61%) MySQL
4 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Redis
5 2 (1.74%) GIS
6 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) Milvus
6 1 (0.87%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) GitLab
2 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) Selenium
4 1 (0.87%) MLflow
General
1 16 (13.91%) Finance
2 13 (11.30%) Front Office
2 13 (11.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.70%) Games
3 10 (8.70%) Health Technology
3 10 (8.70%) Tech for Good
4 5 (4.35%) Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.48%) Publishing
6 3 (2.61%) Law
6 3 (2.61%) Legal
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Advertising
8 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.96%) RESTful
2 18 (15.65%) FastAPI
3 17 (14.78%) Swagger
4 13 (11.30%) Kafka
4 13 (11.30%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (11.30%) React
5 11 (9.57%) Flask
6 10 (8.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 10 (8.70%) Node.js
6 10 (8.70%) OpenAPI
7 9 (7.83%) HTML
8 7 (6.09%) CSS
9 6 (5.22%) Jinja
9 6 (5.22%) Pandas
10 5 (4.35%) REST
11 4 (3.48%) Next.js
11 4 (3.48%) pytest
11 4 (3.48%) Terraform
11 4 (3.48%) Vue
12 3 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.22%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.30%) Algorithms
2 13 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.57%) Data Structures
4 10 (8.70%) Equities
4 10 (8.70%) Hedge funds
4 10 (8.70%) Low-Code
4 10 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 10 (8.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (3.48%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.74%) Derivative
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) NHS
6 2 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.87%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.87%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Unix
2 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.57%) Software Engineering
2 33 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 32 (27.83%) AI
4 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
5 25 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 23 (20.00%) Validation
7 20 (17.39%) API Design
7 20 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (14.78%) Agile
9 17 (14.78%) Continuous Delivery
9 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (13.91%) Generative AI
10 16 (13.91%) Observability
11 14 (12.17%) Mentoring
12 12 (10.43%) Containerisation
12 12 (10.43%) DevOps
12 12 (10.43%) OO
12 12 (10.43%) OOP
13 11 (9.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 115 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 14 (12.17%) SQL
4 10 (8.70%) C++
4 10 (8.70%) Go
5 9 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.48%) Bash
6 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.74%) Rust
8 1 (0.87%) Bicep
8 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.74%) Degree
1 2 (1.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) QA
2 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (14.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.91%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) Grafana
3 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.87%) Puppet